Move in date is 8/20 and classes start 8/24
Move in for S is 9/1 at 7:30 pm and they start orientation activities for 6 days the next morning. Was hoping we would have had at least half a day to get any last minute stuff for him but looks like we won"t see him after moving him in.
We are still going back and forth between the CS department and his CLA advisor with differing information on what credit he should get for AP computer science A and what class he should be taking. Advisor is saying online credit page is wrong, CS department is saying it is right. I told S he has to get the two talking with each other to resolve.
My classes start the 17th, I will be moving in the week prior. I leave August 10.
Now my life is really in turmoil. We had a party last Saturday for me, a graduation/going away party. It was great! But… my romantic relationship ended today. We just couldn’t agree on some important issues that had always threatened to keep us apart. (religion) The attempts we had made to solve the problem weren’t working. Luckily we’re not mad at each other and are planning to remain friends. Still, I didn’t expect this and… I don’t know. I guess I’m pretty glum right now. But I know things will look up, I mean I’m going to college, so I’ll have lots of new friends and opportunities. I won’t have to stress about a long-distance relationship now.
I would suggest that for AP Computer Science, look at whether the computer language is the same. I understand that the AP course tends to use Java, and I know some intro computer science classes use C++.
I would also suggest that your son get the syllabus for the class he would place out of, to check, and maybe thumb through the book at the bookstore or take a look at the chapters.
Sorry to hear that albert69, but sometimes it is better to be unattached going to college. My spouse got dumped Valentine’s Day freshman year, after being on a train 10 hours to go see his long-term girlfriend. He was pretty upset by that.
@singermom4 Has he contacted the professor he would have for the lower level class? The AP Comp Sci curriculum well-known. I’m sure the professor would be familiar with what is covered. Maybe through correspondence with the actual professor, he can iron things out.
@albert69 Sorry about your sad news.
@albert69 - around here everyone “breaks up for college” - it’s a LOT easier to go off without trying to maintain a long distance relationship (or just one that’s with someone not at your school). I wish I’d broken up with my HS BF before we went…would have saved me a lot of grief.
You’ll be OK 
We didn’t break off because I’m going to college. It was something else. But I hear what you all are saying about how it can be better this way. Time will tell, I guess.
@VMT -great suggestion. The head of advising for CS suggested contacting a CS advisor. We are still waiting to hear back. While he could look at a syllabus to determine what he has covered I feel he needs advice from a professor and advisor. I told him it would be better to repeat than to rush ahead but there are two alternate sequences for CS and it would be good to get a departmental viewpoint on which to take,
@albert69 -sorry to hear you are facing another change on top of all the changes going on in your life right now.
My daughter got her dorm assignment and move-in date today. Sept. 24. Unfortunately she did not get the dorm she wanted.
She applied for the “quiet dorm” (24-hour quiet - like regular dorms are after 10 p.m.) and got one of the biggest, nosiest dorms. She’s going to try to find someone to trade. Apparently many of those who end up at the quiet dorm are upset because it is considered “social suicide” because music isn’t allowed, social conversations with the doors open aren’t even allowed. She has some anxiety issues, and can’t even do her homework if we have the TV on in another room. The quiet dorm would have been perfect. Hopefully someone will want to trade.
Classes start for DS on 8/24 but he is moving in first thing in the morning on 8/17 for band camp. But since he couldn’t make it to campus this summer, we have to be there the Friday before during business hours so he can get his student ID prior to move-in. That does mean DH and I will have him all to ourselves for the weekend. He may not appreciate that but I do. 
I am more focussed right now on the fact that we get to see him again in a week! He has been gone since mid-May.
DS has move in on 8/26 and classes start 8/31. Still trying to corral and gather the last items…
@albert69 sorry about your breakup. Like others have said it’s probably for the better. S is leaving behind a 2-yr relationship at home, they mutually decided it was best to just remain friends b/c he is going across the country. We’ll see how that works, but I think he is genuinely interested in meeting new people. But it doesn’t mean it will be easy…
@Cameron121 Thanks. I don’t know, I wasn’t planning to date right off the bat anyway, since I probably won’t have time. The reasons for the break-up had nothing to do with other people, neither of us were doubting the other’s ability to stay faithful if we were a couple. I hope I make a base of friends (of both genders, lol though guys won’t be hard to find in engineering.) I’m a bit numb right now, I’m not really feeling anything. I’m not sure if it’s simply because it wasn’t a traumatic break-up or if my emotions will start exploding in time. All I do know is that so far it is less painful than episodes I’ve been through a couple years back… I liked someone for years who wasn’t at all interested in me. Dealing with that rejection was harder than accepting that me and this person had differences that just weren’t going to get solved.
@albert69 If she thought that religion would have been a barrier to future getting married or whatever, better to break it off now especially if you are going off to college and won’t be together.
@bopper Yeah, that was more like it.
Move in for us is 8/28 at 4 p.m. D15 got the only dorm that has twin beds (as opposed to twin XL) which means that we’ll have to buy new sheets for her next year as every other dorm has twin XL beds and this is a freshman-only dorm. Classes start 9/2. She’s in DC right now with a friend and has gone to the dorm to check things out and meet her roommate, who is taking some classes over the summer. She’s so excited because most of her friends in her college internet group have been assigned to the same dorm and the same floor on which she’ll be living.
@tranquil218 - maybe buy Twin XL but just buy extra fitted twin sheets for this year - the rest of the pieces should still fit okay on a twin bed?
@singermom4 : that’s what I was thinking. A Twin XL comforter and top sheet will definitely work on a twin bed. Can’t believe we’re less than a month away!
My mom is insisting on me reading this book before I leave about STDs and such… man, it sounds bad out there and this book is 12 years old! We’ve always talked about sex stuff over the years, but I admit that I have been pretty sheltered - home schooled and the ECs I’ve done have always been highly supervised and never involving the things that people do out there with sex. Even as a guy I’m disgusted, and it must be even worse for girls.
If you respect both men and women, and make it a point not to start kissing someone on the first date, and also not going into someone’s room even if it seems innocuous, you will be better off.
I dated twice in college, never in HS, and married the second guy. Very very happy and very very ahem happy in the bedroom department. Respecting yourself and others is important - I talked to my spouse for at least 12 hours before we kissed at all, let alone before I let him into my room…
STDs are pretty scary, as well as unintended pregnancy. It is difficult to know someone in a short time, and you have the rest of your life ahead of you. Of course drinking and drugs do not help matters when trying to make rational decisions…